Somebody stole the servers ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-NpLu2xC38
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 9:06 AM, Aled Hughes <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for that 'cure' Elardus, much appreciated! > > Now, why don't IBM use this information to advertize their wares? If I was in > IBM 'marketing', this would be broadcast on TV ads and newspaper ads! Please > wake up the IT world to good news, IBM, and 'share the word'! Wouldn't it be > in IBM's interest to promote such a solution? Or am I being naïve? > > OK, rant off. Time to go pick some tomatoes. > > ALH > > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Elardus Engelbrecht <[email protected]> > To: IBM-MAIN <[email protected]> > Sent: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 11:21 > Subject: Re: Another shop that has -- no, wait, what? > > > Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: > >>I will try to find out about that municipality how did they do that trick. >>Just > to satisfy my insane curiousity. :-) > > Curiousity cured. ;-) > > From private correspondence: > That municipality has an old m/f and has upgraded to a new z Box. Some > applications were carried over, but there are now a good dose of SLES11 SP2 or > SP3 there with a good lot of applications ported/developed over there. > > Other sources: > > http://www.ibm.com/news/za/en/2014/03/31/U770233P58807G38.html > ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/eserver/zseries/zos/vse/pdf3/wavv14/Linux_on_IBM_System_z_better_and_more_secure.pdf > > From http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/44688.wss this (Same text > from link posted by Steve): > > "Brazil's Algar Telecom replaced 80 Hewlett-Packard servers with an IBM > mainframe platform, achieving savings of 50 to 70 percent in data center floor > space, energy and cooling. At the same time, Algar increased operational > efficiency by 30 percent. " > > "The eThekwini Municipality, a government organization in the province of > KwaZulu-Natal that provides civic services to the approximately 3.5 million > citizens of Durban, South Africa. Utilizing an IBM infrastructure, the > government reduced the number of physical servers in its environment by 67 > percent and reduced infrastructure complexity by 80 percent. As a result, it > was able to improve time savings by 90 percent and launch new products 92 > percent faster." > > ......etc..... > > This is not one shop, but many shops which are moving over to z Boxes to use > zLinux on z/VM. > > Groete / Greetings > Elardus Engelbrecht > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
